Improvement in bedstead-fastenings



dltidi Stairs CHARLES S. COMINS, OE LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 110,632, dated January 3, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEDSTEAD-EASTENINGS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pari: of the same.

I, CHARLES S. CoMINs, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex, and `State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Bed-Fastening, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my invention 4; Figure 2 is an end elevation of one of the lsid pieces of the bedstead, and

Figure 3, a plan of the lower edge of the same.

This inventionrelates to that class of bedsteads wherein the side pieces are attached to the head and foot-boards or posts by projecting studs, lugs, or other devices on the side pieces, entering locking morc-ises, slots, rests, 86e., in the head and foot-boards or posts; and j It consists mainly in the peculiar construction of the male iron and mode of 'attaching it to the side pieces, as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the drawing- A represents a cast-iron plate provided with the studs orlugs B B, or other similar devices, for engaging in mortises, slots, l1ests,l8rc.', and is termed the male iron.

The plate A ltapers from front to back, as shown in iig. 1, and at its back edge is bentinto a vertical concavity C.V v

D D D' represent horizontal ridges on one side of the plate A.

E represents one of the side pieces of the bedstead, provided with a circular orifice, F, which extends upthrongh the same as far as the upper edge of' the slot G Operation.

lhe curved end C of plate A is 'inserted into slot Gr and forced in (the horizontal ridges D being forcibly imbedded in the side of the slot) until it reaches the inner side of the orifice F, as shown in fig. 3, where it is confined by inserting a wooded or other ,suitable plug, I, into the orifice E, therebyerowding the concavity C of plate A against the side' of orifice E and rmly securing the same. -The ridges D D 1),.

imbedded in the wood, aid in preventing any vertical motion of plate A.

. This device can be cheaply cast, and attached with great firmness and strength in the simplest manner, dispensing with screws, and is therefore xnuchmore' convenient -and economical than the devices now in use, and does not injure or disiigure the side pieces ot' the bedstead. v

Having thus fully described my invention,

n What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let Witnesses:

JOHN HoWAnTH, y CHARLES F. BROWN. 

